Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Daily Bulletin/Reveille. (College Station, Tex.) 1916-1938 | View Entire Issue (March 20, 1924)
Che Maily Bulletin Vol. VII College Station, Texas, Thursday, March 20, 1924. No. 140 BASEBALL RACETO TEMPTATION IS NO PREHISTORIC MAN'S BEGIN THIS WEEK Only Texas Colleges in Competition for Honors of the Southwestern Conference. Sixty-eight games will make the Southwestern Conference ball championship race this seascn but because these are far from even- ly distributed, only the six Texas members of the organization will compete for the title and the part played by Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical and Arkansas this year will be negative. up Their games count in the per- centage column, but under the con- ference rules, which require in baseball at least twelve games with at least four conference teams and six of these on the road, neither team is eligible for the title. Okla- homa A. & M. plays ten games, Ar- | kansas only eight and neither team has six rcad games. These clubs can jar the conference chances of other teams, but they can not win themselves. Rice plays only fourteen confer- ence games, Texas A. & M. 18, T. C. | 20 cach S. M. U. 22, The Longhorns and U. and Baylor and Texas 24. T. C. U. are the only nines which ! meet every other baseball team in the conference. Texas has a more advan- tageous schedule, with 14 home games and 10 on the road, while T. C. U. has 8 at hcme and 12 on the road. A. & M. and S. M. U. also have more games at home than on the road, while Bay- lor breaks even. The conference schedule runs near- ly {wo months, opening Mach 28 and not concluding until May 24. The dates of conference follow: March 28—Texas Aggies vs. Rice at College Station. March 29—Texas Aggies vs. Rice at College Station. April 2—Rice Houston. April Houston. games vs. Tow@.o Tl. Sat S—Rice vs. TT. GC. U. it Waco; Texas Aggies vs. T. C. U, at base- | EXCUSE FOR FAILURE Dr. Thacker Delivers Third of Ser- mons to Student Body; Next Will Be Heard This Evening “Man, mightier than his difficul- ties” was the subject taken .by Dr. Thacker Tuesday evening in the re- vival service for students and campus people at the Assembly Hall. He an- nounced as his text the 4th verse of the th'rd chapter of Revelations which reads. “Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white; for they are worthy.” (Centinued on Col. 2 Page 4) DIRECTORY OF EXES WILL BE PUBLISHED Colonel Ashburn Inaugurates Cam- paign to Compile 10,000 Names of Exstudents Before May. Publication, at a near date, of a ! directory of exstudents of the Col- | lege is planned by Col. Ike S. Ash- | burn, Executive Secretary of the As- sociation of Former Students of the College. The directory wil be of such size as to fit into a man’s pocket. It will carry an alphabetical list of all former students of the College showing their address, occupation, | course, and class. In the last section of the book these names will be grouped alphabetically by localities. Colonel Ashburn has inaugurated 'a campaign for the location of every ' former student of the College. It is . the hope of the Association that every | A. & M. man whose name is not in the | office of the Association will commu- nicate at once with headquarters in | order that the directory may be as | complete as pcssible. | The directory will be published the | latter part of April. It is hoped that at least ten thou | sand names and addresses can be shown in this directory. “If you | know of the address of an A. & M. | man not active in the association, April 4-5—Baylor vs. S. M. U. «ot send us his name as it is highly pro- bable that we do not have his cor- College Station. | rect address”, said Col. Ashburn in April 7-8—Texas vs. Rice at Aus-|anncuncing the publication of the (Continued on Col. 1, Page 4) |directory. RELIGION DESGRIBED Dr. Ball Gives Reports of Anthropo- logists on Life of Men of New and Old Stone Ages. “One might think that because ealy man was prehistoric we can know nothing about his religion, but by painstaking research anthropolo- gists have reconstructed much of the life of the men of the Old Stone Age and the men of the New Stone Age,’ Dr. O. M. Ball, professcr ot Biology told the congregational club in a re- cent addess. He was talking on the subject of “The Religion oi the Pre- historic Man”. Contrary to eommon opinion said Dr. Ball, some people do nct have any religion. Probably all such people have been reached now by mission- aries, given a religion, buat in their | original state their nearest apprcach to religion was belief in an imper- sonal power in trees, rivers, stones and animals. If a man bumped his head on a tree, he blamed the power in the tree. Our knowledge of the religion of ancient men who lived before the time of written history depends upon the discovery now and then of their bury- ing places. About 25.000 years ago a race known as the Neanderthals in- habited western Europe. Their burial places in caves have been un- earthed; shells placed in particular positions are always found interred with the bodies; the bones were cover- ed with red iron oxide. Thus, some kind of a ceremony accompanied the burial of some of the Neanderthals. Millennea later the great race o: the Cro-Magnons entered Europe and drove off the short Neanderthals. Tue Cro-Magnons stood seven feet high. They developed some of the finest art of any race. The funeral pyre was rart of their burial ceremony. A* «rv them came the race which erected t}.o great megaliths, like Stonehinge in England. The position of their stone temples or burying places are so con- structed as to suggest that their re- ligion had something to do with the sun. The lake-dwellers of the Po-Valley in Italy have left evidence of their religious life in the pits which they (Continued on Col. 3, Page 4)
